Organisation: 'Pick Up Footage'

After gaining some feedback from friends saying they thought it was a Vampire film (it's far from that!) I realised there're some elements I'll have to remove from the trailer draft and more elements I have to make more obvious. For example, the actual 'sexting' element, which just includes some shots of 'Marian' pushing the sleeve of her top down in front of her webcam or selfie camera! Hopefully that'd make the plot line a bit more obvious!

Organisation: FIRST DRAFT OF TRAILER!

Oh my goodness! I finally did the first draft and it looks BRILLIANT! I'm so excited, I need to calm down! Just watch it!

First Draft:

I wrote in the description of the YouTube video itself that I'm yet to add any idents of distributors and I'm yet to put in the captions (what the blank moments are for too I guess) and I, obviously, still need to make the title screen... Also I need to refine the voice-over moments so I decided to remove voices from this version, since I didn't want rubbish voice acting to dampen the trailer so far.
BUT
Just seeing how it is at the moment as a whole is AMAZING! Time for me to rest...

Organisation: First Draft In Progress

I'm currently putting together my first draft of my media trailer. I've decided to definitely use these three sound effects for the trailer so far...



I just love the mood the blend of the last two tracks make, and the 'boom' sound will occur whenever I'd need to have a dramatic effect for a single shot. the rest of the magic will be done through the visual edits as well as the diegetic voices.

Organisation: Ancillary Products: Images I could use for 'Little White Lies' Edition

I've considered some images I could use from my photography for my magazine front cover of my Trailer. I love the art-house style Little White Lies goes for, and looked through ways I could make a photo in that sort of style...

Original:

Edits:

I cropped this image down from the original and I do love the way the camera pixelated the image
on its own. I could imagine the masthead of 'Little White Lies' on the top if I extend the image up ever so slightly.

To show another style, I tried out a black and white filter as well; but this version doesn't
'tell the story' as much as the others probably do.

I altered the 'hue' with this one to give me a slightly greener tone (could relate to a more 'computerized' look) and the light looks a bit more pink (connoting to lust, possibly) and through
the colour connotations the image is clearer and more intriguing!

Research Into Similar Products: a few more Little White Lies to tell

One thing I noticed about Little White Lies magazines is that there are LOADS of 'Black Swan' inspired covers! I mean, the movie only came out once! Why're there so many! But they must've loved doing the artwork for them!

Here're some of the Black Swan editions:

I love the variation of colour and shape in the above edition! There's a sense of hiding things and almost being ashamed by only parts of the coverstar's face being made up by the feathers. It can also resemble how the Black Swan is her! 

I love the subtlety again of the placement of the title 'Black Swan' as well as the style again; though black and white alike a lot of the 'Black Swan' covers, it's a different style; like a black and white photo. Again, I could experiment with filters to get this effect from some of my original photography and see what artistic effects I get!

I love the emotive element of the above edition and how it's incredibly simple with the black and white sketchy style. Again, I could perhaps experiment with filters with my original photography in order to get a unique, almost artistic magazine cover like this.

I love how the above image is perhaps the most 'realistic' image, and how the title is engraved into her flesh, like how she's urged to 'let go' in order to understand the 'Black Swan'. But there isn't much fear in the coverstar's eyes, as if showing acceptance and almost a hint of pride in what she's done. Or perhaps a sense of being drained from her conscience, that she's merely 'doing' and not thinking anymore.

I love how abstract the above and below editions are; the way they use simple ideas and simple colours to demonstrate the character. The below one having a dramatic abstract effect on the left eyes to symbolise the black swan and her sense of 'letting go' into unfamiliar turf. The one above, I love the corrupt use of the brush-strokes when it comes to the black wing, and the stand out colours being pink and blue. I just love the dramatic simplicity about both editions.

Research Into Similar Products: Little White Lies Research

Little White Lies is a very unique movie magazine which promotes movies through unique artwork. Each edition always aims to surprise with it's almost 'independent' like style. They're completely beyond the mainstream sort of magazines out there, and are definitely the sort of movie magazine I'd consider basing one of my Anciliary products on! They're so pretty!!!

Here're a few of the magazines I love...

Seeing Michael Fassbender in a piece of artwork is enough to grab my attention, let alone a magazine cover, and I'm already taking inspiration from the 'Shame' trailer so I totally thought 'I don't mind if I do' when I found this image! I love the use of colour and contrast yet keeping the same, beautiful, emotive face of Fassbender and those crisp blue eyes showcase the piece. I also love how no other movie clutters the front page of any 'Little White Lies' magazine, allowing the one film they're paying tribute to to hold it's own, and by the title being real subtle in the image makes the audience try to work out the film before reading the title hidden in the artwork somewhere!
(Here's the link the the issue itself. I found much of it's content very inspirational! Especially when it comes to in accordance to my trailer too!
http://issuu.com/lwlies/docs/lwlies39)

Something I touched on in my previous post, was the fact most magazines, and specifically Empire, don't use many 'close ups' or 'medium close ups' of the character of the film. But with Little White Lies, it's all about the character and the concept surrounding them! Their face takes the spotlight of the magazine cover since there're no 'coverlines' to get in the way of their glory! Just like this lovely image of the beautiful Gary Oldman here! These Little White Lies magazine covers could almost act like professional  fanart posters, which is another fabulous thing about them! I'd definitely pin a piece of art of both Gary Oldman and Michael Fassbender on my wall. Hooray for film fans!

This one is rather different from the rest since the house style colour scheme of this cover is a bit more varied; the cool coloures of the coverstar and the surrounding space, as well as the beautiful colours of the cosmos circled around the masthead is beautiful and so striking! Another thing I just noticed is that the Little White Lies masthead is rather unique aswell! Most of the time their barcode is on the masthead itself and I don't quite know how to describe the masthead... it's just really simple and unconventional. Again, that's what Little White Lies is all about! Being unconventional, which really matches their very name, really!

It's rather clever that they put the barcode over the shoulder of Rooney Mara! She looks so cute here, I love this magazine of Carol! The way all the colours (except for the black and white) are all so warm and comforting and it's rather hard to tell whether she's giving direct address or not, so it's fascinating in that way too!